Recommendations from central Ohio librarians, booksellers, college professors and others:

• The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia of Existing Information
(Little, Brown, $29), by the
Onion staff: “If you like
The Daily Show, you’ll enjoy this satirical encyclopedia of “facts” for adult readers.

— Doug Dangler, Writers Talk,

Ohio State University

• The Secret Keeper (Simon & Schuster, $26.99), by Kate Morton: “Morton skillfully mixes
love, history and mystery in this absorbing novel about a woman searching for the truth about a
violent crime she witnessed as a teenager in 1959 and her mother’s hidden past.”